You type faster than I do: Rats are always the first to leave the sinking ship.
This is the second member of the Chicago mafia to bail on the Obamas. Rahm Emanuel parachuted before being pushed out. Daley did not have as dignified of an exit.
Daley had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On the third day Carney went into the vestibule of the press room to look at the notice-board. One of the notices carried a printed list of the members of the White House staff, of whom Daley had been the chief. It looked almost exactly as it had looked before—nothing had been crossed out—but it was one name shorter. It was enough. Daley had ceased to exist: he had never existed.
...with apologies to George Orwell.